Designed to fill the gap left by expensive, heavy-duty network intrusion detection systems, Snort is a free, cross-platform packet sniffer, logger, and intrusion detector for monitoring smaller TCP/IP ...

Sourcefire this week is expected to announce add-on software called Intrusion Agent for its intrusion-detection system freeware Snort. The add-on will let the freeware version of Snort work with ...

Need extra network protection to shore up your defences? Read our review of six intrusion detection (IDS) and prevention systems (IPS).

Intrusions Detection Systems (IDSs) are designed to handle attacks but many Intrusion Detection System (IDS) are designed for specific attack/attacks. It is evident that no single technique can ...

Since Pi.Alert is merely an intrusion detection system, it cant deny unauthorized access, meaning youll have to look into solutions such as Snort to prevent devices from transferring suspicious ...

A new vulnerability in Snort, an open source intrusion-detection system, enables hackers to inject hostile code into exposed systems. Sourcefire, the company behind the Snort package, said hackers ...

The Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) are primarily designed to protect the availability, confidentiality and integrity of critical network information systems.

A variety of intrusion detection systems (IDS) are on the market, ranging from enterprise-level, managed network monitoring solutions to simple on-the-host logging systems.

Sourcefire, which oversees the open-source intrusion-detection system Snort and makes commercial products based on it, Tuesday disclosed a major vulnerability in Snort along with corrective ...

If you don’t have a lot of budget at your disposal, these open-source intrusion detection tools are worth a look.